#6 Stonehill Cruises Past
Bentley, 19-3
Anderson leads Skyhawks to
fifth-straight win with seven points
Boxscore
WALTHAM, Mass. (April 6,
2010) – Stonehill College, ranked sixth in the most
recent Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association
(IWLCA) Division II poll, coasted to its fifth-straight win with a
19-3 decision over rival Bentley University in Northeast-10
Conference women's lacrosse action tonight.
Junior Hannah Anderson
(Eden Prairie, Minn./Eden Prairie) led Stonehill with
seven points on five goals and two assists. Sophomore Sarah
Galligan (West Newbury, Mass./Pentucket Regional) posted
four goals and an assist for five points, chipping in five ground
balls, while classmate Sam Lynott (Holbrook, N.Y./East
Sachem) contributed three goals and an assist for four
points, also collecting five ground balls. Freshman Heather
Sullivan (Andover, Mass./Andover) chipped in with three
goals, while freshman Kayla Green (Londonderry,
N.H./Londonderry) posted two goals and an assist off the
bench.
Sophomores Maureen Fields
(Pittsfield, Mass./Pittsfield) and Megan Wiggins
(Acton, Mass./Acton-Boxboro), along with freshman
Alex Carney (Providence, R.I./The Wheeler School)
all netted goals for Bentley.
Sam Lynott
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Freshman Rebecca Moore
(Marlborough, Mass./St. Mark's School) finished with
seven saves in 54-minutes in goal for Stonehill, while freshman
Julia Powell (Southbury, Conn./Pomperaug) stopped
13 shots in the net for Bentley. The Skyhawks finished with a 33-19
advantage in shots for the match, including a 32-14 margin in shots
on goal.
Bentley opened the scoring when
Wiggins scored off a feed from junior Leigh Tedeschi
(Duxbury, Mass./Duxbury) 5:55 into the first half.
Stonehill netted the next eight goals on its way to scoring ten of
the last 11 goals of the half to break the game wide open. Lynott
knotted the score with an unassisted goal with 21:53 left in the
half. She had three goals and an assist in the Skyhawks' 8-0
run, while Sullivan netted three goals. The Skyhawks rounded out
the half with goals from Anderson and Sullivan, assisted by
Anderson, in the last 13-seconds of the frame.
Bentley scored the first goal of
the second half as well, with Carney's goal 59-second into
the final frame, but Stonehill held the Falcons there and scored
the final nine goals of the contest. Anderson had four goals in the
second half, while Galligan potted three.
Stonehill (6-1, 4-1 NE-10) is back
in action on Thursday when it hosts Saint Anselm College at W.B.
Mason Stadium for a Northeast-10 matchup at 7 p.m. Bentley (5-4,
2-2 NE-10) visits Merrimack College on Thursday at 7 p.m.
